Mixed
Professionally, it's a shift, and it's still hit or miss as to whether it's overall more productive or not
BitsAndObjects on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How are you adapting your career in this AI era?”
Helped: Scaffolding boilerplate, summarizing errors, and specification-driven planning.
Got in the way: Generating convincing but wrong code and poor architecture.
… For some people, this has removed a part of the problem-solving challenge that was good fun. Professionally, it's a shift, and it's still hit or miss as to whether it's overall more productive or not. For hobby projects, it's a choice whether to start or continue using AI or not. …